Agile Delivery Training
CASE STUDIES
Minimum VIable Agility
AGILE TRAINING FOR PRODUCT DELIVERY TEAMS
Better Products Delivered faster
Minimum VIable Agility
Overview
Unlike most agile training, Minimum Viable Agility is agnostic of methodology. It focuses on:
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Developing an understanding of agile working and it’s benefits - what is agile and why is it effective
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Teaching holistic agile practices that increase the value, quality and speed of product delivery
The training is highly interactive with hands on exercises used to practice new techniques throughout.
The final module is a workshop to design new ways of working. This is used for participants to:
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Define how current processes will evolve to put new learnings into practice
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Define roles, responsibilities and ownership for process health and effectiveness
Follow up coaching is also available to support teams put learning into practice.
What's Covered
Participants will learn:
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The importance of working in short feedback loops to increase value and quality
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How to deliver in short feedback loops by working in small batches and limiting Work in Progress
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Why smaller is faster
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How to break large scale work into small iterations and then into small stories
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Why delays increase feedback loops
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How to reduce delays by using WIP limits
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How to limit WIP with pair programming and effective stand-ups
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How to use data as a tool to learn and improve agile process health
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The importance of developing an agile mindset
Who is it for?
This is intended for software engineers, product managers, product owners, delivery managers, engineering managers and any technology leadership that wish to improve the value and quality of the products they deliver.
Format
The agile training consists of 5 modules followed by a workshop to design new ways of working. This is delivered face to face over 3 days.
Follow up coaching and support services are also available.
Price
£750 per person for 3 days
Discount available for multiple teams
Participants will also receive:
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PDF copies of the training decks
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A summary of key learnings including follow-up reading and useful resources
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A set of guides to running agile ceremonies effectively
Additional Services & Support
A range of additional services are available to increase the impact of the training and successfully embed agile working within your product delivery teams.
Coaching & Troubleshooting
Support your teams to put the theory of the training room into practice with follow up coaching. This allows them to seek guidance when they encounter real life scenarios not covered in the training.
2 hours per team for a 3 month period (£900/team) is usually sufficient to ensure training has successfully translated into day to day working.
Agile Metrics Set-Up
Visualise process health and empower your teams and leadership to identify and debug process problems fast.
The price includes:
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A team process metrics dashboard with key process metrics and leading indicators
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A sprint capacity calculator
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A video guide to updating metrics
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A guide to using metrics to debug process problems
A sample is available on request.
Jira Project Template
Get new teams set up quickly and ensure consistency where required with a template Jira project.
This is provided together with a guide to setting up a new project from the template.
Agile Onboarding Workshop
Get new people up to speed with your ways of working with an agile onboarding workshop.
The workshop will be designed for you and your team will be trained to run it.